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Cities, Seas, and Forests: Legacies of Timber and Agriculture in Chesapeake Port Cities (2024)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Co-Producing Space: Relational Approaches to Agrarian Landscapes, Labor, Commodities, and Communities", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. As the forests of the Chesapeake were cleared for tobacco and wheat agriculture, timber consumption reformed both agricultural and port landscapes. The systematic clearing of timber opened land for Euroamerican-style open-field agriculture while directly contributing to the...